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    by Published on July 22nd, 2013 19:53
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    Naughty Dog’s The Last Of Us is the top selling game at UK retail for the sixth week running, matching records set by Black Ops II and FIFA 12.Dynasty Warriors 8 is the highest new entry this week at five, the long-running series’ fourth best launch week after Dynasty Warriors 6, 7 and Dynasty Warriors 5 – Empires, says ChartTrack.Retail promotions for Max Payne 3 prompt its return to the top ten, climbing nineteen places from last week. The Elder Scrolls V: Legendary Edition also received a sales spike, boosting it back into the number eight spot.The UK all formats top ten for the week ending July 20, courtesy of Ukie/GFK ChartTrack is as follows, with reviews through the links and week-on-week sales differences where relevant.1. The Last of Us (-22%)
    2. Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (+20%)
    3. Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Bros (-8%)
    4. Animal Crossing: New Leaf (-9%)
    5. Dynasty Warriors 8
    6. Far Cry 3 (+4%)
    7. Max Payne 3 (+135%)
    8. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Edition
    9. FIFA 13
    10. Tomb Raider (-1-%)

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    by Published on July 18th, 2013 22:55
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    Here's a fun fact: The Entertainment Software Association spends more on federal lobbying than the National Rifle Association. According to the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), the ESA reported $4.83 million in federal lobbying last year, compared to $2.98 million from the NRA. So why does legislation to keep violent games out of the wrong hands make it all the way to the Supreme Court while any effort to keep guns out of the wrong hands is a non-starter?
    Part of the reason is those numbers tell only a fraction of the story. OnOpenSecrets.org, the CRP tracks three big areas of political spending: lobbying, contributions, and outside spending. Contributions include money donated to candidates for office and political action committees, while outside spending is money spent on TV spots, mass mailings, robocalls, and other communications. It's in those two areas where the NRA far outstrips the ESA, with the gun lobby spending $1.52 million on contributions in the current election cycle compared to the ESA's $510,000. The difference in outside spending is considerably more dramatic, with the NRA's $19.77 million spent on communications infinitely outpacing the ESA, which hasn't reported a dime in outside spending in the past three election cycles.
    But even these figures need to be taken with a grain of salt. GamesIndustry International spoke with Richard J. Feldman, former NRA political director and current president of the Independent Firearm Owners Association, to get some perspective on the subject.
    "You can report everything you do as lobbying, but the requirement to do so is much more limited," Feldman explained. "If you send money or have a flier urging support of, say, Senate Bill 25, it's lobbying. If you send fliers talking about the issue but not the specific bill, it's not lobbying... So I might think I'm lobbying. You might think I'm lobbying. But I'm not required to report it unless I'm lobbying for specific legislation."
    Organizations can also fudge the numbers on lobbying reporting. Feldman said some groups might consider the salaries of certain employees to be lobbying expenses, while others might not. Some organizations could reveal as much lobbying activity as possible "to puff themselves up," while others might prefer to be more selective in their reporting.
    Robert Maguire, a researcher with the Center for Responsive Politics said limited transparency into the lobbying process not only caps the information the public receives, but also makes it difficult to say just how significant that information is.
    "In a lot of cases, it depends," Maguire said. "It's always a hassle getting the relevant information to the public in a timely manner. And in this case, it's also a matter of trying to quantify the effect that a group had on a bill they were trying to influence, either at the state level or the federal level. It's hard to say. I'm inclined to say that's where the journalist comes in. You have to look at the data that's there, the issues they tried to influence in general. There are a lot of groups that spend a ton of money and appear to be tragically ineffective. There are others that spend a lot of money and seem to be very effective."
    We looked at the political spending of a handful of well-known organizations and detailed them in the table below. The amount of influence a group is perceived to have in Washington, D.C. is not always proportionate to how much it reports spending, and these organizations' strategies on where to focus their resources differ greatly.



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    by Published on July 18th, 2013 22:52
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    Nintendo exclusive doubles hardware sales in 90k debut week
    The Wii U enjoyed a rare strong week in Japan thanks to the release of Pikmin 3, which enetered the software chart at number one.
    Nintendo's struggling console didn't unseat the 3DS XL, which held on to its familiar position at the top of the hardware chart. However, the Wii U's sales more than doubled to more than 22,000 - the first time it has sold more than 10,000 units in a week since the start of May.
    And it was all thanks to the long-awaited Pikmin 3, which is the sort of exclusive content that Nintendo believes its console needs to find an audience. However, while 92,000 sales was enough to debut at number one, it is still relatively low for a first-party game.
    Of course, that's largely down to the console's low installed-base, but the comparison between Pikmin's first-week sales and those of prominent 3DS exclusives is striking: Animal Crossing sold more than 600,000 units, Tomodachi Collection sold 400,000, and Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon sold 280,000.
    In that context, it's clear that Pikmin 3 will need to have a positive impact on the Wii U's sales for more than just a few weeks.
    The full hardware chart is below, with lifetime sales in parentheses:

    • 1. 3DS XL - 29,594 (29,716)
    • 2. Wii U - 22,199 (8,251)
    • 3. PlayStation Vita - 15,662 (20,776)
    • 4. 3DS - 13,841 (14,506)
    • 5. PlayStation 3 - 12,698 (11,683)
    • 6. PSP - 5,830 (5,768)
    • 7. Wii - 1,434 (1,334)
    • 8. Xbox 360 - 393 (313)

    The full software chart is below, with the previous week's sales in parentheses:

    • 1. [Wii U] Pikmin 3 (Nintendo, 07/11/13) - 92,720 (New)
    • 2. [3DS] Yokai Watch (Level-5, 07/11/13) - 53,654 (New)
    • 3. [PS3] Earth Defense Force 2025 (D3 Publisher, 07/04/13) - 37,024 (191,713)
    • 4. [3DS] Tomodachi Collection: New Life (Nintendo, 04/18/13) - 26,065 (1,259,847)
    • 5. [Wii U] New Super Luigi U (Nintendo, 07/11/13) - 24,881 (New)
    • 6. [PSV] Toukiden (Tecmo Koei, 06/27/13) - 20,853 (186,963)
    • 7. [PSP] Toukiden (Tecmo Koei, 06/27/13) - 19,262 (118,404)
    • 8. [PS3] Dead Island: Riptide (Spike Chunsoft, 07/11/13) - 18,462 (New)
    • 9. [PS3] Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection (Konami, 07/11/13) - 17,599(New)
    • 10. [3DS] Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D (Nintendo, 06/13/13) - 12,963 (206,322)
    • 11. [PS3] Gundam Breaker (Namco Bandai, 06/27/13) - 10,224 (242,819)
    • 12. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Nintendo, 11/08/12) - 10,088 (3,325,123)
    • 13. [3DS] Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (Nintendo, 03/21/13) - 9,184 (825,026)
    • 14. [PS3] The Last of Us (SCEJ, 06/20/13) - 9,158 (173,181)
    • 15. [PSP] Hanayaka Kana, Ware ga Ichizoku: Tasogare Polarstar (Idea Factry, 07/11/13) - 9,046 (New)
    • 16. [PSP] DanganRonpa: Academy of Hope and High School Students of Despair(PSP the Best) (Spike, 11/23/11) - 6,106 (91,204)
    • 17. [3DS] Digimon World Re: Digitize Decode (Namco Bandai, 06/27/13) - 5,912 (50,952)
    • 18. [3DS] Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl (Namco Bandai, 06/27/13) - 5,870 (106,914)
    • 19. [Wii] Taiko Drum Master Wii Super Wonderful Edition (Namco Bandai, 11/29/12) - 5,203 (516,866)
    • 20. [PS3] Atelier Escha & Logy: The Alchemist of Dusk Sky (Gust, 06/27/13) - 5,031 (72,873)


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    by Published on July 17th, 2013 22:37
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    Naughty Dog’s PS3 exclusive The Last Of Us has retained the number one spot for the fifth consecutive week, holding off 3DS duo Animal Crossing: New Leaf and new entry Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Bros, which debuts in third.Sega’s Aliens: Colonial Marines has leapt back into the top ten due to its new budget pricepoint, and beyond a new entry for Mario & Luigi, there’s little else new on the chart this week beyond Civilization V add-on Brave New World for PC, which enters at number 39 in the all formats chart.GfK Chart-Track Top 20 for Week ending July 13 is as follows, with links to reviews where relevant and wook-on-week sales differences in brackets:1. The Last of Us (-43%)
    2. Animal Crossing: New Leaf (26%)
    3. Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Bros
    4. FIFA 13 (-31%)
    5. Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (-54%)
    6. Far Cry 3 (+18%)
    7. Call of Duty: Black Ops II (-16%)
    8. Assassin’s Creed III (-25%)
    9. Tomb Raider (-24%)
    10. Aliens: Colonial Marines (+36)

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    by Published on June 30th, 2013 23:41
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    From June 30 - July 14, Amazon is hosting the Digital Games Summer Sale, offering discounts on its lineup of PC and Mac games. Like, all of its games. Almost 900 titles are on sale, including the Borderlands bundle, with the first and second games and the Borderlands 2 season pass for $22, normally listed at $100.

    Other deals include Assassin's Creed 3 for $13, Assassin's Creed 2 for $5,Amnesia for $3, Dead Space 3 for $20, Rayman Origins for $7.50 and about 895 more games. Separately, Amazon's indie store is still live and kicking, and right now purchase

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    by Published on June 29th, 2013 23:58
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    New research suggests that releasing a demo before a game is released with actually damage potential sales, potentially halving the number of copies it will shift.
    This was revealed by game designer Jesse Schell during the recent Gamelab conference in Barcelona, according toCVG. Schell based his claims on new data from research firm EEDAR.
    According to the study, the average Xbox 360 game that is preceded by both a demo and a launch trailer will sell around 250,000 units in its first six months.
    However, titles that only released a launch trailer and no demo sold more than twice as many copies – as much as 525,000 – in same period.
    Any game that releases with neither a trailer nor a demo sold an average of 100,000 units.
    But it should be noted that the study doesn't conclude whether or not demos discourage sales directly.
    It could be that the best-selling games don't release demos because they have rarely needed to in the past: Call of Duty, for example, only releases demos months after launch.
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    by Published on June 28th, 2013 00:21
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    Xbox 360 is this generation's best-selling home games console in the UK, says GfK Chart-Track.
    Microsoft's platform will overtake Wii in a matter of days, the stat tracker says. Xbox 360 is regularly outselling all rivals in hardware terms, and has now shifted 8.4m consoles across the country.
    “This is an historic milestone and our sincere thanks goes to each and every person that has bought and enjoyed Xbox 360 over the past eight years," Director of Xbox and entertainment Harvey Eagle told MCV.
    "As you saw at E3 earlier this month, we announced a new Xbox 360 form factor and we are committed to ensuring Xbox 360 remains the best place to play games, connect with friends and enjoy your entertainment. You’ll see great exclusive content coming not only to Xbox 360, but also to Xbox One later this year.”
    It's a significant achievement for Microsoft as it prepares to launch Xbox One. The new platform has had a troubled start after its controversial business model angered gamers. But the platform holder has since cancelled these plans in a bid to win back favour amongst the fans.
    However, Xbox 360 still has some way to go before it can be named the best selling home console of all time. PS2 holds that record with 10m consoles sold.

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    by Published on June 24th, 2013 23:44
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    Naughty Dog’s The Last Of Us is the top selling retail title in the UK for the second week running.Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Leaf remains in second spot this week, with EA’s FIFA 13 climbing two places to number three.Price promotions on Rockstar’s Max Payne 3 explains its sudden reentry at number five, with Black Ops 2 also rising thanks to price cuts.In a sparse week for new releases, the highest new entry is PQube’s MotoGP 13 at number 15.The Ukie/ChartTrack top ten for the week ending June 22 is as follows, with week-on-week sales differences in brackets and reviews through the links where relevant.1. The Last Of Us (-48%)
    2. Animal Crossing: New Leaf (-55%)
    3. FIFA 13 (+62%)
    4. Tomb Raider (-4%)
    5. Max Payne 3 (+602%)
    6. Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 (+55%)
    7. Far Cry 3
    8. Injustice: Gods Among Us
    9. Assassin’s Creed III
    10. Grid 2

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    by Published on June 20th, 2013 23:50
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    "Now that Microsoft and Sony have unveiled their respective next-generation gaming consoles, the two companies have cheerfully resorted to firing broadsides at each other. Whether the current brouhaha has any effect on sales of the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 (if hardcore gamers keep complaining, they may even convince Microsoft to knock $100 off the new Xbox and bring its pricing down to the PS4's level), it's also drowning out what many perceive as the real issue: gaming consoles face an existential threat from mobile devices, most notably those running iOS (with some threat from Android). First, there are signs that the hardcore gamer market is soft: console sales in the United States dropped 21 percent in 2012, and sales of new video-game cartridges haven't fared much better. Second, PC/console games such as X-Com have begun appearing on iOS; if that trend continues, the console companies will have more rivals to fight against. Third, Apple is developing a game controller for iOS which could make it an even more dedicated opponent — and convince other tech companies to follow in its footsteps. But don't tell any of that to Microsoft and Sony, which seem content to fire at each other.

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    by Published on June 20th, 2013 00:58
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    Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D debuted atop the Japanese software chart during the week ended June 16.
    One of seven 3DS games to make the top ten - the other three titles were for PS3 - Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D sold over 100,000 copies to top the chart. It came in ahead of Friend Collection: New Life and the week's second-highest new entry, Square Enix RPG Chousoku Henkei Gyrozetter: Albatross no Tsubasa.
    On the hardware front, 3DS continued to dominate, shifting more copies than all competing platforms combined, according to Media Create data published on NeoGAF.
    Software sales


    • Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D (3DS, Nintendo) - 104.569 / New
    • Friend Collection: New Life (3DS, Nintendo) - 42.372 / 1.133.246
    • Chousoku Henkei Gyrozetter: Albatross no Tsubasa (3DS, Square Enix) - 17.925 / New
    • Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (3DS, Nintendo) - 14.949 / 781.660
    • Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS, Nintendo) - 14.693 / 3.278.356
    • Resident Evil: Revelations (PS3, Capcom) - 9.759 / 160.120
    • Shin Megami Tensei IV (3DS, Atlus) - 9.034 / 241.670
    • Terraria (PS3, Spike Chunsoft) - 6.608 / 42.549
    • Kamen Rider: Battride War (PS3, Namco Bandai) - 6.152 / 172.946
    • Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission (3DS, Bandai Namco) - 4.707 / 208.316

    Hardware sales


    • 3DS - 47.135 (39.872)
    • PS3 - 10.872 (10.394)
    • Vita - 10.664 (9.733)
    • Wii U - 5.983 (6.330)
    • PSP - 5.651 (5.076)
    • Wii - 1.461 (1.060)
    • Xbox 360 - 397 (432)
    • Total - 82.163 (72.897)

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